EBBA 37757
British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads
| The Lamentation of / Seven Journey-men Taylors, / Being sent up in a letter from York=Shire, and writen in verse by a wit. / Giving a true Account of a Wench, who being with Child, laid it to seven Journy-men / Taylors, who at length was forc'd to contribute each Man his Penny a day to defray the / extraordinary Charge; with other circumstances which this had like to have incurred / upon the seven distressed Journey-men-Taylors: This being published for the good of / all Journey-men Taylors, lest they unhappily do fall in the like distress. | |
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| Date Published | 1671-1702 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guilt=spur=street, without Newgate. |
| License | Entred according to Order. |
| Collection | British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.22.f.6.(136.) |
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| Title | The Lamentation of / Seven Journey-men Taylors, / Being sent up in a letter from York=Shire, and writen in verse by a wit. / Giving a true Account of a Wench, who being with Child, laid it to seven Journy-men / Taylors, who at length was forc'd to contribute each Man his Penny a day to defray the / extraordinary Charge; with other circumstances which this had like to have incurred / upon the seven distressed Journey-men-Taylors: This being published for the good of / all Journey-men Taylors, lest they unhappily do fall in the like distress. |
| Tune Imprint | To the tune of, I am the Duke of Norfolk. |
| First Lines | ATtend and you shall hear, / New News from York=shire, |
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| Notes | Includes "The Taylors answer / To the JUSTICE." Printed on the recto of EBBA 37758, "The Gallant SEAMAN's Resolution; / Whose full Intent was, / To try his Fortune at SEA, and at his Return marry his Lanlady / If Heaven be pleas'd to bless him with his life, / None but his Lanlady shall be his Wife: / She being a Widow, as tis understood, / Of Carriage and Behaviour very good." |